Ars TechnicaAccepting a 2°-warmer world means running a lot more air conditioning
The need for air conditioning will skyrocket, with Africa and Europe hit hardest.
Adam Trickett 
@arstechnica Or we could just have properly built houses that don't heat up in summer and cool down in winter...!
Needing heating and cool just means your house isn't properly built - which I accept is a problem for many older properties, but we've known how to build passiv houses for more than a decade, so we've no excuse!
Anton Piatek@drajt @arstechnica not sure though that rebuilding all of Europe is the answer here though...
@sldrant @arstechnica average age of a house at demolition is surprisingly low, 60 years in the UK, and we've known about global warming for decades and known how to build better homes as long, so we did have the time, but I agree that now it's too late to fix, but it's still not a reason not to demand better homes rather than the tat that is mostly built.